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Already renewable energy advocates are noting that the 42 miles of above-ground right-of-way between Yosemite and the city could be fitted with enough solar panels to generate at least 40 megawatts per year - a proposal the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has never seriously considered because they currently aren't required to do so.

— Matt Gonzalez energy

As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.

— Matt Gonzalez money

At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we simply going to standby while somebody's rhetoric is good, but their actions are so lousy?' Are we going to stand up for that?

— Matt Gonzalez action

Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.

— Matt Gonzalez art

I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets, my opponent has never served on any a budget committee where there was less money to spend than the year before.

— Matt Gonzalez time

I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation.

— Matt Gonzalez mind

I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them.

— Matt Gonzalez society

Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of that, we can't expect that young people are going to feel they can make a living out there for such low wages.

— Matt Gonzalez art

If you engage people honestly, and you're willing to do the leg work, people will respond to that.

— Matt Gonzalez people

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.

— Matt Gonzalez men

As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me.

— Matt Gonzalez you

There is a preliminary belief that Tuolumne River water could be captured by other reservoirs that are downstream from Hetch Hetchy, the Cherry and Don Pedro reservoirs for instance. Furthermore, any shortfalls could be supplied via greater conservation efforts, newly discovered groundwater supplies, and water purchases when necessary.

— Matt Gonzalez belief

This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.

— Matt Gonzalez life

I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did not think I was a credible candidate. And then four years later, I was nearly elected mayor of San Francisco, so I know what it takes.

— Matt Gonzalez people

If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical.

— Matt Gonzalez people

Running for office is important, and you don't really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able to articulate what it is you believe. You don't need a certain background. You don't need to be a lawyer. You don't need to have some professional degree.

— Matt Gonzalez art

Chard and kale are my favorite these days.

— Matt Gonzalez day

I don't have to be in politics.

— Matt Gonzalez politics

I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.

— Matt Gonzalez money

I really am disappointed when I run into people who are angry I'm leaving office.

— Matt Gonzalez people

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

— Matt Gonzalez author

If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less.

— Matt Gonzalez business

It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election.

— Matt Gonzalez time

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.

— Matt Gonzalez politics

You don't have to be wealthy to run for mayor. I'm a Green Party candidate running for mayor and I'm being taken seriously.

— Matt Gonzalez art

Already renewable energy advocates are noting that the 42 miles of above-ground right-of-way between Yosemite and the city could be fitted with enough solar panels to generate at least 40 megawatts per year - a proposal the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has never seriously considered because they currently arent required to do so.

— Matt Gonzalez energy

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